I have existed before Abraham was born.

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

I'd like to punch out a really old lady. There'd be no repercussions.

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.